XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips   
   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 10/18/25 14:46, Your Name wrote:   
      
   > On 2025-10-18 16:22:58 +0000, Paul S Person said:   
   >> On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 08:54:48 -0700, Bobbie Sellers   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>> On 10/17/25 05:47, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   >>   
   >>    
   >>   
   >>>> When somebody runs over a pedestrian it doesn't even make the   
   >>>> newspaper in   
   >>>> a big city.  It might make page three of the weekly paper here in rural   
   >>>> Virginia, along with the article about the high schooler who got a   
   >>>> scholarship to Yale and the new hotdog shop opening.   
   >>>   
   >>> These days you are lucky to have a Newspaper in a major conurbation.   
   >>> The accidents are frequently covered on TV in San Francisco and   
   >>> sometimes the SF Chronicle will give the accident and susequent   
   >>> problems space especially if the term "DUI" comes up.  The incidents   
   >>> covered involving the driverless vehicles show that people are   
   >>> interferring with vehicles more often than vehicles are interfering   
   >>> with people. Auto-navigating Cars have not been designed to deal with   
   >>> anti-car protesters.   
   >>   
   >> An excellent illustration of the failure of programmers to consider   
   >> all the possibilities.   
   >>   
   >> Kind of like when Microsoft decided that "640KB RAM was all anybody   
   >> could ever need".   
   >   
   > 640KB probably would be enough ... except that Microsloth keeps bloating   
   > their awful software.  :-p   
   >   
   > The Commodore 64 only had 64K of RAM, but is probably more than enough   
   > for the majority of users' needs (emails, web browsing, word processing,   
   > etc.)   
      
   	We did not do email except thru BBS on the C=64. There was no Web to   
   browse. We did do word processing with inserted formatting.  People used   
   it to write games, other programs and so forth because it had for that   
   time excellent graphic capability.   
   	   
   	The Amiga came along and it was not originally designed for Internet use.   
   It did not even come with facilities for hard drive use.  i got a GVP+   
   SCSI host   
   card with in the "+" room for 8 GB of ram on sims.  But AmigaOS had a   
   modular   
   design and updates after AOS 1.3 added some capability for hard drive   
   use and   
   for internet security. But AmigaOS 3.9 did not have any memory management   
   capabillity and the result was you could not depend on a program like a   
   text   
   processor and a Web browser running together without crashing.  It was very   
   good at Web browsing and Usenet and email. but again no memory   
   management.  Memory management was omitted in the adoption of TriOS to   
   AmigaOS because   
   it was designed to run on a single 68000 CPU with graphics and sound   
   offloaded   
     to co-processors.   
   This design was made to be less expensive to the consumer and to the   
   builders   
   of the Amiga hardware.   
      
   > Not that Microsloth are alone in bloating software - the original MacOS   
   > could run off a 400K / 800K floppy disk and still have room for your   
   > documents. Even on my ancient Mac, this MacOS now takes up around 47GB   
   > (including space used for things like caches). Similarly, software like   
   > Photoshop has become massive in size.   
      
   	I don't call that bloatware but i use Linux.  I cannot run Photoshop   
   let alone   
   afford it.   I got my C-64 new, my Amiga computers were all at least   
   second-hand.   
   Memory chips/simms and Hard drives were fabulously expensive and that was   
   before inflation had set in hard.   
      
   >   
   > In all cases, the majority of people don't even know about, let alone   
   > use, all the gimmicks in the software.   
      
   	Of course not. Most people do not realize the possibilities of image   
   modifications.   
      
   >   
   > It's not just software either. Most don't use all the gimmicks that   
   > over-complicate new cars, and even want to turn off those annoying   
   > gimmicks. Same with appliances around the home - nobody needs a   
   > "smart" / "AI" kettle!   
   >   
      
   	Yes and I want to turn off AI intrusion into my Firefox as I find it   
   annoying.   
   When I enter a URL or clickon it I want to go there not be bothered by an AI   
   telling me it can or cannot preview it.   
      
   	Some people could use AI in the kitchen though because I have one friend   
   who cannot boil water because he forgets to deal with it. Residual brain   
   damage   
   from a childhood accident.   
      
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